Wow, that's rough. I have a 1050sq ft 2/1 SFH with a 1-car garage and a yard about three times the size of the house in a good neighborhood. I pay $1400.

Moving, though, to the west side into a 1-bed with a loft, a 1-car garage and a small (15x20) yard. It'll be $1600, but it's 4 miles from the beach and, more importantly, about 2.3 miles from my favorite bar.

timujin:Wow, that's rough. I have a 1050sq ft 2/1 SFH with a 1-car garage and a yard about three times the size of the house in a good neighborhood. I pay $1400.

Moving, though, to the west side into a 1-bed with a loft, a 1-car garage and a small (15x20) yard. It'll be $1600, but it's 4 miles from the beach and, more importantly, about 2.3 miles from my favorite bar.

Sounds just like the housing situation here in Connecticut. I'm about to buy a house, and will be paying about $100 a month less on my mortgage than some friends of mine who rent a crappy apartment, and that's even factoring in utilities. Unless you're on Section 8, renting around here is both a waste and a joke.

Wife and I just moved to LA a few weeks ago. We're staying with a friend near where I work until we can find a permanent place. And negotiating neighborhoods and rents is like Chinese algebra (in some cases LITERALLY, since some real estate listings are actually written in Chinese).

Can a native-type person let me know where I should be looking to live?

Difficulty:

1) Job is in City of Industry. Wife's job is in Redondo/Hermosa. Yeah, I know.2) Need a single-family house with fenced yard, as we have a rescue Greyhound.3) I can't live where there are bars on the windows. I want my parents to come visit.4) $2,000-$2,200 would be a good rent window.5) At least 2 bedrooms.

I don't mind a bit of a commute. Wife and I both have cars and solid work.

Simple. Send the landlord a certified letter (costs about six bucks) stating that all future rent monies will be held in an escrow account until such time that all required repairs are satisfactorily completed. Then make sure to actually deposit every cent of the rent into that escrow account, on or before the date it's due. This shows the court that you, as a tenant, upheld your end of the rental agreement, and that you gave the landlord an opportunity to make good also.

Okay, maybe its the (evil) lawyer side of me talking, but I kind of can see where the LL is coming from.

Yeah, it was probably a threat. But OTOH, I could sort of see the LL actually honestly saying: look you need to pay the rent or figure out someway we can come to a mutual arrangement. If you involve the courts, your immigration status could come up and I know that's what you want to avoid.

The meaning or motive could be better ascertained from the way the LL said it, but unfortunately for him, its in a phone text, so there is no tone of voice.

Sin_City_Superhero:Simple. Send the landlord a certified letter (costs about six bucks) stating that all future rent monies will be held in an escrow account until such time that all required repairs are satisfactorily completed. Then make sure to actually deposit every cent of the rent into that escrow account, on or before the date it's due. This shows the court that you, as a tenant, upheld your end of the rental agreement, and that you gave the landlord an opportunity to make good also.

The jack-hole landlord is a lawyer. I'm sure if he threatened them with "deportation", he would claim the agreement, if it is worth the paper it is written on, to be null.

Wife and I just moved to LA a few weeks ago. We're staying with a friend near where I work until we can find a permanent place. And negotiating neighborhoods and rents is like Chinese algebra (in some cases LITERALLY, since some real estate listings are actually written in Chinese).

Can a native-type person let me know where I should be looking to live?

Difficulty:

1) Job is in City of Industry. Wife's job is in Redondo/Hermosa. Yeah, I know.2) Need a single-family house with fenced yard, as we have a rescue Greyhound.3) I can't live where there are bars on the windows. I want my parents to come visit.4) $2,000-$2,200 would be a good rent window.5) At least 2 bedrooms.

I don't mind a bit of a commute. Wife and I both have cars and solid work.

Anyone have any suggestions?

/fark is not your personal house-hunting site

CBSB:

I used to have a brother who was a radar genius. Top secret clearance (probably above that). Decades ago, he lived in Arizona and every so often he would get long-term contract offers from California firms. He never took them up but when he adopted two kids, he got offers that would "make sure he and his family were well taken care of out here in California". The pay was substantially higher than anything he got in Arizona. So he flies out to look the place over.

Those long-term generous offers would have kept him and his family in rags due to cost of living. Farking bastards were going to lock him in to wage slavery with two kids and wife.

/I thought we only did that to foreign workers

/End of Cool Bro Story Bro./He sat in an SR-71. Waited 25 years to tell us. Then died.

Wife and I just moved to LA a few weeks ago. We're staying with a friend near where I work until we can find a permanent place. And negotiating neighborhoods and rents is like Chinese algebra (in some cases LITERALLY, since some real estate listings are actually written in Chinese).

Can a native-type person let me know where I should be looking to live?

Difficulty:

1) Job is in City of Industry. Wife's job is in Redondo/Hermosa. Yeah, I know.2) Need a single-family house with fenced yard, as we have a rescue Greyhound.3) I can't live where there are bars on the windows. I want my parents to come visit.4) $2,000-$2,200 would be a good rent window.5) At least 2 bedrooms.

I don't mind a bit of a commute. Wife and I both have cars and solid work.

In a just-filed lawsuit, Rosas said his landlords have let the apartment become uninhabitable, and when Rosas started withholding rent, he said he got a text from Golchin that read, "It is in your best interest not (to) get the courts or sheriff involved. They sometimes call immigration.""They're taking advantage of my client's immigration status to rent them a piece of filth," said Rosas' attorney Dan Gilleon.On the phone, Golchin told Team 10 the text was "not a threat. I was helping them out by giving them information. The idea of a threat is appalling."

What a sleazy piece of shiat.

Anyways, I live in a great neighborhood in San Diego in a 2br house with a washer/dryer and a garage and pay $1650. Who the fark wants to live in Oceanside?

lockers:Rufus Lee King: It's pure racism. White people get to pay less for their apartments than minorities do.

What's really funny is that as a white person they rip up the check so it never affects your balance when you do pay rent. Paying for things is for minorities.

Paying for things is for minorities? Geez, as a hetero, average weight Caucasian female in her late 20's, I'm doing it wrong.

Not to mention... MAYBE MOVE OUT OF LA. You can rent a nice 3bed house in Sacramento and the suburbs for $1,200 a month. I had a large 1bed with a walk in closet in a nice neighborhood for $725. So not all of California sucks for rent. Just the lower third.